The Clifton clarion., 1887-06-01
Facts and News.

The cost of the Canadian Pacific has been slSO, 900, ,0O0.
 There are over 2,000 soda-watcr fountains in New York City.
 There are 225 different kinds of birds in Southeastern Dakota.
 In Ohio there is one divorce for every twenty marriages.
 Milwaukee has l59, ,00O inhabitants, a gain of 43 ,000 in five years.
 Native American soldiers exceed all other nationalities in stature.
 The silver coinage of India amounts to about $50, 900, 900 annually.
 4 German doctor claims to have invented machine for looking into the brain.
 Ice is piled on the stage of q Kansas City theater to make the audience feel cool.
 A Connections man has & machine with which General Grant used to split leather.
 It is estimated that Nebraska set. tiers have planted half million young forest trees.
 The debt of Canada is about 500 per head for every man, woman, and child fin the dominion.
 Eastern papers say that the son-in- law crop of 1885 is one of the poorest ever harvested.
 It is estimated that over ,OOO per sons are annually buried in the pot ter's field of New York City.
 Choice rubies are said to be higher n price than for twenty years last, while sapphires Lave dec.sa,ed in value. A
 Ladies who ride are growing so have to be fitted while sitting ill the saddle.
 The thirty eight States of the Union contain ,290 counties. Texas leads off with l5l, and Georgia follows with l27.
 The word "ex rebel" should be used no more, unless the man him. self insists upon wearing it.-tProvi- dcnce Journal.
 America was written by the Rev. Samuel Francis Smith in 1882, and it was sung in Boston on the Fourth of July of that year.
 Harrisburg, Penn, has a grass widow who has run away from three different husbands and run of with two different coachmen.
 It is estimated that m average of 5000 immigrants come into Kentucky annually. Most of the number are from Germany and Switzerland.
 \ horse over forty years old is still doing good service in the city of Mexico. He was used at one time as q cavalry horse in the United States Army.
 The White House, which has not been painted for seven years, has be- come so shabby as to offend the sensi- bilities of tie Washington people.
 The odd fancy of Michigan man is to build his summer residence in the form of T huge lantern. The site for the structure is on 8 bluff over looking Lake Huron.
 An American expert, who has trav- eled in both countries, asserts that the speed of English trains is, on the average, one-fourth greater than that of American trains.
 During the London Reason sweet breads cost as much as $2.50 a couple at the butchers. In some parts of America and Canada they are sold at l5 cents to f5 cents each.
 In the list oi 4 ,s69 male patients in the Pennsylvania Insane Asylum there are 505 farmers, 469 merchanF, ll6 lawyers, l0S physicians, 60 clergy men, 5S teachers, and only 6 editors
 4 curious coincidence in connection with a school of seventy odd pupils at Swcetwater, Gs., all under fifteen years of age, is that every one, it is said, is related 10 the teacher and to each other.
 Iced soup is a popular drink in Chicago. Bouillon Is in tho largest demand, but tomato, vegetable, OK tail, pea, and barley, are much liked and are serious competitors to lemon ade and other standard beverages.
 Odd names are much thought of by s Madison County, Fla, man, who has named his five children as fol- lows: Mexico Maximilian, Dumas Don Quixote, Equador Aracctier, Marienne Calvin Peacock, Hortense Cinderella.
 Atlantic City is said to have q flag so wired that it cannot hang limp. even if there Is no breath oi air stir ring. It is fixed above the gable of a hotel, and is intended to convince the heated guest that his discomfort is imaginary.
 When your collars and cuffs come from the laundry as hard and stiff as board, don't break your studs and cuff buttons in trying to put them on, but just dip your finger in water and touch it to the button-holes, and see how easy they go on.
 New York City gives $20, ,OOO every year to the blind who do not beg and are not inmates Of homes or asylums. The amount paid 10 each applicant this year was S3S. Among the pen sioners is one family of four-twC sisters, q brother, and his wife.